Clay Risen on the Untold Story of the 1964 Civil Rights Act

Journalist Clay Risen of The New York Times spoke about his upcoming book on the behind the scenes story of the groundbreaking Civil Rights Act of 1964. Risen was in residence at the Starr Center as the 2013 Frederick Douglass Fellow.

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